The company I work for bought a bunch of Quantums when they were
replacing all their 400-800MB Western Digitals with 1+GB drives.  Most
of the Quantums were dead within a year.  Most of the replaced WD drives
are still running at an age of 4-5 years in other machines.
Personnally, I've never had a Western Digital drive fail on me.  They
were eventually replaced because they were too small.

Realistically, most manufacturers have gone through spells of some sort
of problem.  Seagates had a lot of problems with stiction a few years
ago.  Western Digital more recently had a controller problem and had to
recall a bunch of drives.  Maxtor was a slower drive than anyone for
many years when they first started out.  Anyone can find a reason not to
like a particular drive.

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Wood <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Best Hard drive manufacturer?


> I have had very good luck w/quantum
> especially in the bigfoot layout
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Elizabeth Boston
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Best Hard drive manufacturer?
>
>         Of all the components that I replace for people, Western
Digital
> hard
> drives seem to be what I replace most often. I thought they made good
hard
> drives, but now I'm starting to wonder. I have probably installed 150
WD
> hard drives in the past three years, and have replaced about a dozen
(not
> all of them were ones that I installed)
>         Has anyone had better luck with another brand?

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